Generation of high-frequency combs locked to atomic resonances by quantum phase modulation
Atomic Physics
2013-09-26 v1 Optics
Abstract
A general mechanism for the generation of frequency combs referenced to atomic resonances is put forward. The mechanism is based on the periodic phase control of a quantum system's dipole response. We develop an analytic description of the comb spectral structure, depending on both the atomic and the phase-control properties. We further suggest an experimental implementation of our scheme: Generating a frequency comb in the soft-x-ray spectral region, which can be realized with currently available techniques and radiation sources. The universality of this mechanism allows the generalization of frequency-comb technology to arbitrary frequencies, including the hard-x-ray regime by using reference transitions in highly charged ions.
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@article{arxiv.1309.6335,
title = {Generation of high-frequency combs locked to atomic resonances by quantum phase modulation},
author = {Zuoye Liu and Christian Ott and Stefano M. Cavaletto and Zoltán Harman and Christoph H. Keitel and Thomas Pfeifer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.6335},
year = {2013}
}